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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-08-19
Presentation to a Retiring Minister

Rev. W. Fl. Settlemyer, pastor of the
Central Lutheran church here, and who
resigned that position some time ago,
closed his labors and left for Middletown,
Md. on Tuesday. On Monday night a
delegation from the congregation headed
by Mr.. z. g. Berry, a member of the
Church Council, waited on him at the
parsonage and presented him with hand
some and costly silver fitting water pitch
er and goblet. made in the latest style and
beautifully frosted. Inside of the pitcher
were two private presents--a gold sugar
spoon and silver butter knife. There were
"a subscribers to the public present. Mr..
Berry made the presentation and Mr.. Set
tlemyer made some very appreciative and
kind remarks in receiving it, saying that
he should always remember the kindness of
his Staunton friends. Mr.. Settlemyer
and family will probably remain at Mid.
dletown during the remainder of the sum-
mer.
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A Small House for Rev. John Jasper.

Through misunderstanding between
himself and the committee of Zion church,
the Rev. John Jasper, of Richmond, had
only small house to hear his sermon on
1.-The sun do Move.'' Mr.. Jasper arrived
in Staunton Tuesday morning, with an
excursion train of sixteen cars bringing
900 colored people, which train was to re-
turn at P. M. He thought he had ar
ranged to lecture at P. M. and get
through before o'clock. But the Staun-
ton committee thought Mr.. Jasper's dea-
cons had arranged it for O'Clock. Mr..
Jasper adhering to O'Clock went over to
the train instead of the Opera House. The
Mayor, the Manager Of the Opera House,
and the Chief of Police, all went over to
the train about P. M. to explain
to him that an audience had gathered
at the Opera House to hear him.
He then went there, but the rumor
that there would be no lecture had
sent most of the whites home and there
were not many present, white or colored.
The receipts were only $S2, which gives
the church very little clear, while but for
the misunderstanding several hundred
might have been cleared. The streets,
T uesday, were crowded with colored people
from Richmond and smaller towns, all
quiet and we'll behaved people.
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A Dangerous Woman,

Two of the servants at the Rockbridge
Alum Springs are Isaac Lewis waiter, and
his wife Malinda, chambermaid. On
Thursday last, Isaac discovered unmista-
kable evidence of her preference for anoth-
er waiter, Lee Brown. The angered wo-
man became desperate, and selling knife
wounded her husband dangerously in the
abdomen. He fled for safety to the shop
of Mr.. J. o. Foster OF Staunton, who is
doing some work at the springs, and the
virago followed and also cut MIR. Foster,
who was trying to save her husband
Lewis seems to have had hard time all
around, for Lee Brown, his wife's lover,
fired at HIM and the ball just missed him.
The woman was arrested and taken to
Jail at Lexington. Brown made his es-
cape,
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Opening of the Fall Season at the Opera
House.

WILSON 8 RANKIN's MINsTRELs ON THE
OPENING NIGHT.
The list of amusements at the Stsunton
Opera House during the coming fall
ara winter is headed by Wilson q
Rankin's minstrela, who open the house
next Saturday night. August 27th.-
The company closed It's GUNNER re-
hearsals at Elmira, n. z. last week. Tbs
company this season carries comedians,
special artistes. 6 vocalists, and an or
chestra of IS. Among the novelties is
balloon trip from Niagara Falls to Wash
ington, with descriptions Of the cities en-
route; the .Adonis Clog" by eight clog
dancers in powdered wigs and Adonis Co.'S
tunes. The costuming OF the company is
said to be of unusual splendor. The drill
ing of the company during the sumner
has been done by Geo. Wilson, assisted by
Charles Torrance, the interlocutor. and
Frank Dnmont, of the Carncross min
strels, specially engaged for that purpose.
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Clerical Notes.

Rev. DR.. J. M. Frost of Selma, Ala,
was welcomed by an outpour1ng of his old
friends last Sunday, when he filled his for
mer pulpit at the Baptist church here. He
preached two very able sermons.
Rev. DR.. Landrum of Richmond, who,
with his wife, formerly Miss Lottie Bay
lori was called by telegraph to Mr.. G. W.
Swoope's death bed, will preach at Hebron
church next sunday at II 80 A. M.
Mrs. Hayes of the Methodist Church
Missions, lectured at the Methodist church
here on missi ons on Wednesday night of
last week. She is most agreeable speak.
er.
Staunton Baptist church has chosen as
delegates to represent it at the Augusta
Association which meets at Clifton Forge
August 30th-Rev. Jas. Nelson. D. D.,
Prof. W. Ell. Kable, and Messrs. John W :.
Todd, W. 7. Mari, Geo. W. Ramse y, and
w. D. Hoge.
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Personal.

Lanier Dunn, Esq. Of Warm Springs,
Bath county, was il She city last week.
and became 800 corporator Of the Dis
trict Fair Asseciatioa.
DR.. N. A. Baldwin, formerly success
full homeopathic physician in Staunton
and later Professor in the University OF
Michigan, has resigned the professorship.
DR.. Haller II. Henkel, wife and little
daughter, are visiting the Doctor Is mother.
Mrs. Susan Henkel, of Newmarket.
Rev. ". I. Austin. pastor of Pres
bYterian church at New Albany, Ind, Is
visiting friends in Augusta, on his ret urn
home from Lewisburg.
Edwin M. Keeling. of Norfolk, who has
been on visit Co relatives in Staunton. re-
turned home this week.
Miss Fannie Tannehill, who has been
visiting in Baltimore, has returned, bring
ing her friend. Miss Azzie Coffroth of Bal
tlmore, with her.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. g. Probst of South
Carolina, are visiting friends near Hermit
tage in this county. Mrs. P. is gradu-
ate of the Staunton Female Seminary.
Miss Mary Bell of Staunton, is visiting
relatives at Mlllboro.
Draper, the venerable and noted histori-
an of Wisconsin in letter written to Judge
Judge John Il. McCue of this city for his
torical information, signs himself Lyman
G. Draper, for fifty years Democratic
voter.'
The firm OF Hutcheson u Stuart at Ra-
phine has been dissolved, and Mr.. John T.
Stuart will conduct the business at the
same stand.
Mrs. Harvey Risk who has been quite
ill during the past three weeks. is now
convalescent.
Rev. DR.. J. S. Gardner continues to get
better, and is well enough to be on the
street.
Mrs. Timberlake of Richmond, and Mrs.
Luxford of Washington, are visiting their
father, Mr.. j. E. Taylor.
Richard Mauzy, ESQ.,, editor of the
Staunton Spectator, who has been sick in
Rockingham some weeks, has returned
and, we are glad to see, in restored health.
Mr.. p. A. Baylor has just returned
from visit to relatives in Kansas city,
Mo.
George Harper, son of Mr.. Geo. K. Har-
per, left on the 10Th inst, to take bust
ness place under his uncle, in Asheville.
N C.
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DeaIhs.

M, Geo. Wash. SWoope, of SM0ope' 3
Depot well known citizen Of the county,
oied very suddenly on Friday morning
from the effect of liniment taken inter-
haiiy the evening before. He had long
peen a great sufferer from rheumatism
ana mad by his bedside two walls of med
lcine, one to take internally and the other
70 apply externally. Being in great pain
ABOUT T. M. Thursday, he mistook the
ylais and took a dose of the external medi-
cine, which must have been equal to one
and a third grains of morphine. He
discovered his mistake directly, and his
dank htsr. Mrs. Van Meter, sent for DR..
Murray at once and did all she could for
her father in the mean time. The drug,
however, did its work having gotten be-
yond physicians power to stop it, and
EAR. 5. died on Friday morning. He was
buried from Hebron Church, the Lev. l..
b. Johnston, of Harrisonburg, conducting
Tue services. The pall-bearers were Capt.
L, ID. Ransom, Maj. Marshall Hanger, G.
&. Child, J. d. Trimble. 6. A. Hanger,
6. W. Trimble, W. A. Burnett and A.
e. Scott.
Mr.. Swoope was Sc years of age. and
was son of the late W Washington Swoope.
He married a daughter Of the late Jacob
Baylor, and owned one of the finest farms
in the county. During the civil war he
was first a private and then Lieutenant
in the West Augusta Guard.
Mrs. Cynthia A. Johnston, widow Of
the late Thomas Johnston, and who owned
one Of the largest and finest farms in the
county, located in Stuart's Draft. died on
Tuesday morning at the advanced age of
So years. She was buried from Thinking
Spfing church Wednesday,, Rev. John A.
Preston conducting the services.
The remains of Miss Nara B. Cochran,
daughter of Geo. II. Cochran, Jr., who
died in Wytheville, reached Staunton
Friday morning, and were inferred at
Thornrose Cemetery, Rev. W. Q. Hull
hen conducting the burial service. The
pail were M. McCue, Chas. Cat
lett, FL. U. Braxton, W. J. Perry, Hanson
Tams. Rhodes Nelson. Kenneth Mccoy,
aud breckenridge Catlett. The Wythe-
vile Enterprise" speaking of her death,
says:
''Her sudden death has cast so univer-
sal shadow Of regret and sorrow over
the community that we cannot add any
thing but our own deep sympathy for the
bereaved family.
The Harrisonburg "Register" in notlc
ing Miss Cochran's death says her friends
there were shocked at the intelligence,
and adds:
1.-THE death of this singnlarly bright and
attractive young lady, just as she was
stepping upon the threshold of youthful
womanhood, is distressing beyond express
sion. With charming vivaciousnesS, a
joyous disposition and personal appear
ance of striking beauty she won the love
and admiration of all with whom she was
thrown.
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Brevities,

On Sunday, chicken belonging.to Mrs.
Ruth Sones, died at the unusual age Of
sixteen years.
Mr.. J. L. Sheets of this county, has
sent to this office Giant Peruvian Gu
camber eighteen inches long and ten inch
es in circumference.
Last week Messrs. Palmer e Bowman,
of Saltville, shipped to the Argentine Re-
public in South America, by way of New
York, four splendid short-horn bulls.
Mrs. Susie Ball has purchased the house
and lot corner of Frederick and Green
streets, part of the Bickle estate, for
So, $50.
The Chesapeake d Ohio has put on two
new eight-wheel passenger engines, which
without the tenders, weigh ITO, 900 pounds
each. They are to take the Louisville ex-
press from Richmond to the White Sui
phur.
W. H. Weller offers special District
Fair premium of one bolt of bleached cot
ton for the best specimen of plain hand
sewing by Miss Is years and under.
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Called to Cincinnati.

Rev. r. A. Gibson, son-in-law of Hon.
A. H. H. Stuart, of this city, aud now
rector of Trinity church at Parkersburg,
W. Va, has accepted a call to Christ
church, Cincinnati. In the nine years he
has been at Parkersburg he has built an
elegant church, a bishops residence, and
made other marked improvements. Mr..
Gibson was member of the Rockbridge
artillery during the civil war, and is a
graduate Of HampdenS Sidney College. He
married Miss Susie Stuart. The Parkers-
burg press express great regret at his de-
parture.
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Narrow Escapa.

Last Friday night Mr.. Charles U. Will
liams, well known lawyer of Richmond
hired double team in Staunton to drive
to Ha1risonburg. The night was dark and
near Mt. Crawford he collided with an
other buggy. The collision overturned
Mr.. Williams buggy, and he was caught
in its top and dragged some distance along
the pike before the buggy broke to pieces
The buggy was scattered along The road,
and the horses ran on to Crabill's stable,
in Harrisonburg. Strange to say, Mr..
Williams only received slight scratch on
the hand. He went to Mr.. Rollers nearby,
and went on to Harrisonburg Saturday
morning.
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New Uniforms.

If the Stonewall Brigade Band receives
the aid being sought for them now, they
will purchase scarlet coats and present the
handsomest appearance as a band of any
in the United States. The idea is by taking
honorary membership at SIS. for the public
to assist the band in purchasing the uni
form which costs $500. Such band so
uniformed would be great advertisement
abroad for StaaHton. The following gen.
tlemen are soliciting for the object-T. j.
Crowder, Commissioner of the Revenue;
M. B. Oberdorfer, President of the City
Council, and Messrs. E. I. Jones, E. Nd.
Gushing and J. II, Burdett.
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The Last of the Badly Injured, Dead.

On Thursday, Miss Sallie Carroll,
daughter of the late M. A. Carroll, of
Ronceverte, W. Va. died at the residence
of A. D. Payne, her uncle, in Charlottes-
vile, whittier she had been carried,
wounded. from the Greenwood accident
On the Chesapeake & Ohio. Her back and
collar bone were broken and her body was
almost totally paralyzed by the fall of the
descending car, but her mind remained
clear and she related the circumstances in
detail. and recognized her friends to the
last,
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Even the Birds.

the colored juvenile thieves whose ex-
ploits were noted last week, do not slack
in activity. Last Friday canary bird
hung in cage in the porch of Capt. j. T.
Parent; it having been sent there by a
friend to be kept. Three small colored
boys applied for something to eat. and af-
ter they had gone 1T was seen that they
had snatched the canary out of its cage
and taken it away. !.
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VENIRYMEN,-Ithe following name

VENIRYMEN.-Ihe following named
persons have been summoned to appear
on the second day of the August term of
the County Court, 23d. to answer as veni-
rymen: Conrad G. Mcclure, 9. G. Thomp-
son, Michael McAleer, David Hupman,
John H. Jones, William Crosby, Samuel
H. Tutwiler, Courtney A. Roller, A. Per-
ry Armstrong. James A. Lewis, John N.
Marshall, John z. Cleveland, George M.
Tisdale, Thomas G. Earman, William F.
Brand, John D. Bailey, James H. Terrill.
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Hardly True.

The York (Pa.l DAILY" of last week
publishes report that Rev. J. H. Hector,
the colored Prohibition orator who had
been assigned by his Bishop to the Cali
fornia Conference, was lost with his whole
family on the steamer on which he was
moving to his new station. The 'Daily"
says that the Presiding Elder there has
information confirming tlis report. but it
is not probable it will be verified, for such
an accident to so we'll known a minister
would have been telegraphed everywhere.
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he Broken Journal of the Car Found

The Broken JOURNAL OF The Car Found.
After the Greenwood accident the G. &
o. Company stuck up notice offering a
broken journal of the passenger car that
jumped the track, and which caused the
accident. 1t was found Friday by the
section master, who digging among the
debris of the Greenwood wreck happened
to strike it with his pick.axe. 1t is claimed
that the breaking of the journal let the
car down on the track, and finally threw
it off, and that. instead of high rate of
speed, caused the accident.
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The Welfare of the insane.

Under resolutions to that effect of the
last legislature, Superintendent Conrad,
Moncure, Barksdale and Black of the four
State Lunatic Asylums, held conference
at the W. L. Asylum last week. They di-
Segment of patients; ascertained that in
all the asylums there were 1,42O incura-
bles, and then left to finish their session at
the Marion Asylum. Their recommends.
tions when prepared will be submitted to
the next legislature as required by the
resolutions of the last one.
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Reunion of Imboden's Brigade,

Imboden's Brigade, the title of which
was the Northwestern Brigade, will
hold it's first reunion since the war, at
Barnes Mill, three miles east of Romney,
Hampshire county, W. Va. Aug. 31st.
Gen. Imboden will be there. On Septem-
Der 1st, another reunion of the same bri-
gade to specially include the survivors in
Bath, Highland, Pocahontas and Pendle-
ton counties. will be held at Forks of
Waters in Pendleton.
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,noiner's Store Gleanings.

PERSONAL NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. NEWS
BASKET PICNIC-TRACTION ENGINES
ON TdE CoUNTY ROADS. sc.
lhepofCeo for the Staunton VINDICAToR.1
It's been very hot. but we managed to
hustle around and get the news all the
same.
Miss Mblue Koiner. of Rockingham
county. IS visiting near here.
Mrs. w. D. Bowman, who has been ill
at BACK Rock Springs, in the care of DR..
DAVIS, bas returned home.
MI. &c. PLANE has been in Roanoke
city Oh business.
Mis- Emma Koiner, of near FshersvilIe,
has feen visiting her sister, Mrs. VIM.
Lay1an, near here.
Yrs Maggie g. Yount, Mr.. Charles A.
ksiner and Miss Rena Koiner, have been
spsnding few days az Black Rock
Strings.
The Misses Turnbull, of Florida, are
Visiting Miss Carrie Davis near here.
Mr.. Geo. Cullen, of Greenville, and Mr..
1rch Koiner, of W. Va, have been in
his neighborhood.
Some weeks ago we stated in our COM
elGA cation that Mr.. Christian Eakle was
Y)r of Black Rock Springs. This was
& ntstake, as your correspondent had been
-3lsiaformed. We desire our ''Gieanings"
ITO c5ntain ''the truth. the whole truth and
I not8ing but the truth" and therefore
yaHa this method of rectifying the error.
Hlr. P. L. Gray, of Harrisonburg. has
BEN in this community selling books.
/ Prof. b. F. Senger is doing good work
| y the way of developing the musical
! lowers of our citizens. He should receive
| ,reat encouragement at the hands of par
ants. The way to keep young people from
attending places Of frivolous and doubtful
resort is to train them to such arts as can
be best practiced at their respective homes
and at united family gatherings.
Miss Sallie Harnsberger, OF Rockbridge
county, is visiting the Misses Wine near
mere.
Rev. Mr.. Layton filled the pulpit at
Mt Horeb last Sunday. in the absence of
the pastor.
Rev. W. T. YarbrougE preached at Mt.
View on Sunday evening.
a weeks service will be conducted by
Rev. John A. Preston at Hermitage. COM
mencing Sunday, the 2Sth inst, at 4
O'Clock. After Sunday, serv ices will be
held at night.
A musical concert was given at Mt.
View Chapel on the night of the 18th
inst, by Prof. B. F. Senger assisted by
Miss Rosa Root and the members of his
singing class.
Synod was held at the Lutheran church
at this place on August 9th and 10th.
A basket picnic will be had at Black
Rock Springs ON Saturday, August 9th,
to which all are cordially invited. The
ladies of course will be expected to furn-
ish the provisions. A stand has been
erected on the grounds for the purpose of
dancing, and those who wish to engage in
dripping the light fantastic toe,' can do
so.
Some of our owners of traction engines
are either ignorant of the law or do not
care. A few days ago your correspondent
met enc of the engines in the road, and
the engineer never pretended to stop. If l
had been riding fractions horse l
suppose it would have been all the same.
MN HAZApD
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Another Creamery Running.

The Raphine creamery commenced
operations on the 18th inst. with fine
prospect Of success. Mr.. John T. Stuart
is the Manager and secretary of the com
pany, and will give all information about
prices, &C., to those who write for it.
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Strange case of Paralysis.

On Sunday morning at his residence in
West End, Mr.. Geo. Rohr, an Industrious
bricklayer. without any premonitory Ill
health had both eyelids paralyzed. His
sight remains good, but 1t is impossible to
keep the eyelids up. Drs. Shelton and
Henkel are attending him.
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LUCKY EsCAPE.-Harry Riddleberger
Roller, the seven-year-olds son of Courtney
A. Roller, ESQ.,, had his lips badly cut, by
being thrown off, while riding a Texas
pony around the residence of his father,
near town, one day last week. AS soon
as Harry could speak after the accident,
he told his father that he wanted his name
in the paper, as he had been lucky enough
to save bis neck,
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DIED.
LIST OF LETTERS


s PITL ER.-At Middlebroek, ug. II, Henry Spit
Ter, IN Of the late John Splitter
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MARRIED.


Augusta Church, Aug: 10th:
by Rev G. L. Bitter, Mr.. VIM. F. Landes. or
Bath Co, to Miss Hester ", daughter of Petes(
Link, ESQ.,, deceased.
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COMMISSIONERS SALE OF LAND IN PoCA-
" HONTAS COUNTY.
Pursuant to a decree of the Circuit Court Of
Pocahontas county, pronounced at the June term
1887 in the chancery cause of John Trimbles e. or
SC. VS.. G. r. Mason's admir- and heirs, we will, o
Wednesday, the 31st day of august ne1t,
1887,
offer for sale by public auction, on the premises
all that valuable body of land lying near the to- al
Allegheny mountain in the county of Pocahor5as
on both sides of the s.. s. P. turn .saaAssss a
pike road. owned jointly by G. R. @sSas8sS s
Mason and John Trimble III their ESggFSss ~
life time, and consisting of the fol- '5ya4@S s3G
lowing tracts: 40, 56, 1885, 214e, 1926. &sSEsss4say
225 I4 90, 345 so. so, ]20 and IA respectiYa
" (excepting terefrom $40 acres heretofore sod TO
Jonathan Siron), and the undivided half of tract
containing 3,039H acres. All these lands adJoip
each other, are well watered, with comfortable
dwelling house. &c, them. large part well inl
proved, and will furnish excellent grazing for
large number OF CATTLE
TERMS:-Costs of suit and sale cash in hand
and the residue in three equal annual pa ymeats
from the day of sale with interest frcr that eia0
the purchaser or purchasers executing bonds WITH
GOOD and approved personal security for the
Geferred isstaiments and a lien being reta1Hed on
said land until the future order of the court.
CHARLES p JONES'
W. M. MCALLISTER,
July 2Sth, 1887. Commissioners,